Federal Elections Commission

ormer U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert has pleaded not guilty to charges in a federal hush-money case. During Hastert's first court appearance since he was indicted last month, defense attorney Thomas C. Green entered the pleas on Hastert's behalf...

Senator Elizabeth Warren has written to federal regulators stating that she has nothing to do with a newly formed political organization urging her to run for president in 2016. Lawyers for the first-term Massachusetts Democrat, who was elected in 2012, delivered a letter to the Federal Elections Commission on Friday stating that Warren ``has not, and does not, explicitly or implicitly, authorize,